Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:14:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm6
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

>   We didn't get many reports from this in -mm5.  I'd prefer to stick with
>   Con's patches because they're tweaks, rather than fundamental changes and
>   they have had more testing and are more widely understood.
> 
>   But the performance regressions with specjbb and volanomark are a
>   problem.  We need to understand this and get it fixed up.

I believe Con has a lead on this already, the thing to find out is why 
sched_clock() causes such a regression.
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